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OK, so, you know (or you may not) how when you're in the desert, and it's approaching midday, the temperature just rises, and rises? Imagine the hour around mid
by madaxe 13y ago
OK, so, you know (or you may not) how when you're in the desert, and it's approaching midday, the temperature just rises, and rises? Imagine the hour around midday not being an hour, but 10 days. Insolation, even at our distance (remember, inverse square law), is punishing. On venus, it's ridiculous.
Venusian colonisation will have to be sub-surface, even if we cover it in water - at least until if and when we come up with a gigantic solar shield that can filter and weaken a planet's worth of sunlight.
- stcredzero 13y ago> Insolation, even at our distance (remember, inverse square law), is punishing. On venus, it's ridiculous. Venusian colonization will probably be high up in the atmosphere, where temperatures and pressures are often going to be around the same as in San Francisco. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Aerostat_habitats_and_floating_cities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Aerostat_...